Yue

"Stop, thief!" I hear a lieutenant yell as I run through the forest. "That Devil Fruit's World Government property!"

"Says someone who tried to steal it from me after I won it!" I shot back, using my Nitoryu skills to cut down trees and block the squardron of Marines that were chasing me. Tonight was Hala Island's Blue Moon Festival, and I had won a Devil Fruit from one of the games that apparently wasn't allowed to exist anymore, according to the 'laws' of the World Government. The game was a simple memory game on whoever gets the most cards receives the top prize, which is, according to the clerk, a Zoan type Devil Fruit. And I won by two cards against a stranger who was a Navy captain in disguise.

"Now where did that punk brat go?!" a soldier shouts after I jumped in a tree that had bush like branches.

"Don't just stand there, find her!" the captain shouts as the soldiers scatter to search for me. Besides the full moon glowing blue in the night and the light from the Marines' torches, it was completely dark, which would give me little time before the squadron would find me.

"Might as well do it now than later," I whispered, sheathing my katanas before taking my backpack off to get the Devil Fruit out. When I get ahold of it and bring it out to the moon's light, I take a moment to study it one last time. The Devil fruit was cherry shaped (even though it's the size of a small canteloupe) with a golden orange colored to it. Of course like all Devil Fruits, it had swirls decorated on the surface along with a tail like stem on top of it.

Please be a Zoan I can really count on, I prayed before shutting my eyes and inhaling the fruit. The fruit tasted really sour, but I keep it all down in one gulp on the last bite. After a few seconds, I embarrassingly let myself be known at first.

"BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!"

"Who in the hell can burp like that?" One of the soldiers asks before I felt intense pain on the inside. I clutched my stomach in agony before rolling out of the tree, gaining a soldier's attention.

"She's over here!" he shouts before his eyes widen in shock as I felt the transformation begin. Grayish blue fur erupted out to cover my skin. My teeth grew into fangs. My fingernails become claws. My tailbone grew until it was three feet long, covered with a furry striped design that soon was on my entire body. The relieving part about this transformation was the pain fading away. Also, the rest of the squadron gathered around to see what was going on.

"Retreat! " the captain exclaims after the transformation was complete. "The girl ate the. . ." He was cut off by a roar that erupted from my throat that confirmed my animal form.

"Neko Neko No Mi: Model Tiger!" the squadron yells in fear, running back to the village since they weren't prepared to take on a now Carnivorous Zoan user.

"Model Tiger, huh?" I say out of the blue before looking into a puddle. The only reflection that was looking back at me was a grey blue tiger face. At first I was confused on why my fur was grey blue instead of the normal tiger orange. But then I remembered the elder locals telling stories about what would happened to Devil Fruits if they were eaten under a blue moon.

"Cool," was all I could say before I went through ten minutes of focusing to turn back into a human being. After returning to my normal form, I go back to the tree where I left my things before I rolled out of it.

"Okay, then," I whispered as I put my katanas back on my waist and my bag on my back. "Until I find someone else that's also a Zoan user, no transforming unless it's absolutely necessary. Then once I got my powers mastered, Grand Line here I come!" And with that, I jogged my way out of the forest to get some sleep in my hide away hut before I start my adventures on the seas.